{"id":98680,"date":"2020-04-23T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98680"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:05:37","slug":"irans-response-will-destroy-american-terrorist-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98680","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Response: Will Destroy American Terrorist Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Navy photograph of Iranian frigate, Sahand, burning. (US NAVY)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps commander had some tough words for the United States. President Trump ordered the Navy to shoot down threatening Iranian fast patrol boats. In response, he argued that Iran would destroy the “American terrorist force”.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Iran’s foreign minister advised President Trump to tend to coronavirus affected military members. He argued that this should be the focus instead of issuing threats.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The US military is hit by over 5000 #covid19 infections. @realdonaldtrump should attend to their needs, not engage in threats cheered on by Saddam’s terrorists<\/span><\/strong>,” Zarif tweeted. “Also, US forces have no business 7,000 miles away from home, provoking our sailors off our OWN Persian Gulf shores.”<\/p>\n

Zarif was referring to Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president who before being overthrown by the United States had gone to war with Iran. The tweet was accompanied by a map that noted the U.S. is thousands of miles away from the Persian Gulf, whereas the Persian Gulf makes up most of Iran’s shoreline.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the Persian Gulf also includes large amounts of international waters and is an important trade route that the United States has made an effort to protect — particularly the Strait of Hormuz, which is the gateway to the Persian Gulf. Iran last summer seized a foreign oil tanker in the strait and engaged in other actions that led the U.S. to attempt to form an international coalition to protect the waterway from Iranian aggression.<\/p>\n

In the recent encounter that angered Trump, 11 Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Navy vessels made aggressive maneuvers near American ships, including multiple crossings of one ship, the Puller, with a 50-yard closest point of approach and within 10 yards of another ship, the Maui’s, bow, a 5th Fleet statement said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will the Iranians test President Trump’s “threats”? Fox News has more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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